Monday, January 25, 2016: We’re giving Regents Tests all week. I wish every student in New York State the best of luck on their tests, and remind them that one’s test results are never an indication of their merits or potential as people–or their intelligence..
“We must accept infinite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
“What better or greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”
Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
It has been a hectic week, characteristic of January in this school, which is always a concatenation of testing and extracurricular activities. For this week’s text, I offer up a couple of learning supports. The first is a basic glossary of the parts of the speech. This version of this support contains simple descriptions of each of the parts of speech with a few spare examples of their use. The second is a supported glossary of the parts of speech which includes a fuller description of each part of speech, along with some sentences that demonstrate their use.
If you use these, as always, I’d very much like to hear how; moreover, I’d like to hear from you if you have any suggestions about how I might further develop or improve these learning supports–or how you have done so.
Earlier this week, I had a very interesting experience teaching the words empirical and empiricism, by way of context clues worksheets, to some of the struggling readers and learners whom I serve. In both of the classes in which I used these worksheets, students, secondary to my Socratic questioning, were able to infer the meanings of both of these highly abstract words. Next week or the week after, as time permits, I plan to post these worksheets with a blog post on the line of questioning I used to elicit the meanings of these words.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Anxiety checks learning. An overall feeling of inferiority, a temporary humiliation, a fit of depression, defiance or anger, a sense of being rejected, and many other emotional disturbances affect the learning process. The reverse is true; a feeling of well-being and of being respected by others stimulates the alert mind, willingness to participate, and an attitude conducive to learning.”
Eda LeShan The Conspiracy against Childhood (1967)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“I believe that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
John Dewey from a Pamphlet Published by E.L. Kellogg and Co. (1897)
“Much that passes for education…is not education at all, but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”
David P. Gardner Vital Speeches (1975)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques Barzun as Quoted in Newsweek (1955)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and to others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.”
Harold Bloom, Short Stories and Poems for Exceptionally Intelligent Children (2001)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
Plato (427?-347 B.C.)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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